{"id":15,"date":"2021-03-30T09:18:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T09:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/854543\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2024-01-29T09:40:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T09:40:55","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/854543\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT THE AUTHOR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1150 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/854543\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/au-208x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/854543\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/au-208x300.png 208w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/854543\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/au.png 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/>Phil S. Dixon<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Phil S. Dixon<\/em> enters his fifth decade as a tireless researcher, author, presenter, and interviewer of sports-related topics. He continues his legacy as one of America&#8217;s foremost experts on baseball and other history-related topics. He is an active member of SABR (The Society of American Baseball Researchers). Dixon is a Humanities Kansas presenter and a past Missouri Humanities speaker who also serves on the Board of Governors for the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, an organization he helped co-found in 1990. As a coach, he led youth baseball teams for over thirty years.<\/p>\n<p>Dixon knows baseball inside and out. He presents regularly to academic audiences, libraries, historical societies, and community organizations, where his services remain in high demand.<\/p>\n<p>Various luminaries have reviewed and praised his prior works, from Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent to Stephen Jay Gould, the famous American Paleontologist. Dixon is a proud recipient of the prestigious Casey Award winner for the &#8220;Best Baseball Book of the Year, 1992,\u201d and a SABR Macmillan award winner for his excellence in baseball research. His recent book on John &#8220;Buck&#8221; O&#8217;Neil captured the Jackson County Historical Society&#8217;s &#8220;Best Local History&#8221; award. Phil is a lifelong resident of metropolitan Kansas City, where he resides with his wife Kerry and family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil S. Dixon Phil S. Dixon enters his fifth decade as a tireless researcher, author, presenter, and interviewer of sports-related topics. He continues his legacy as one of America&#8217;s foremost experts on baseball and other history-related topics. He is an active member of SABR (The Society of American Baseball Researchers). Dixon is a Humanities Kansas<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/854543\/about-the-author\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ABOUT THE AUTHOR&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/854543\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/854543\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/854543\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/854543\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/854543\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":125,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/854543\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/854543\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/854543\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}